Curtis Stigers at Ronnie Scott’s, W1

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Walking through Soho at the end of an exhilarating set I bumped into a colleague who, hearing where I had been, embarked on the now traditional bout of eye-rolling and faint praise. It is a standard reaction from people who remember Curtis Stigers as an AOR pop star or on the reality TV show Just the Two of Us but have never been to one of his jazz gigs. A decade after he released Baby Plays Around, the American singer is still dogged by false assumptions about what he can actually do.